wally
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I'd say caught cold with no warning
Ah, there's the rub. Having a weapon is a necessary but not sufficient condition. Situational awareness to avoid being "caught cold" is the key!
I'd say caught cold with no warning
If you want to introduce some realism into these drills have 3 or more people play the role of the attacker so the defender doesn't know which one is going to initiate the attack. This is still unrealistic in that the defender knows it is coming. Want to make it more realistic? Run it over and over where no attack occurs before an attack is initiated by one of the multiple possible attackers. You'll see real differences between static and dynamic scenarios and between trained and untrained defenders.
Sorry but I was not kidding. Be aware of what is going on lets you set you body for a T stance which alows you to side step easily the cane should already be at the ready and after you have side stepped then struck him you can back away draw and dail 911.I am a great big giant of a man, and there isn't a whole lot anyone can do to stop even me from covering 7 yards very fast. My hallway happens to be almost exactly that distance, and I can cover that tout suite.
Assuming you weren't kidding, waiting to move at the last minute in a game of seconds is going to result with a knife sticking out of one of your body parts. Plus, you advocate essentially doing three things at the same moment. Mindset is hugely important, awareness is hugely important, but training the kind of skills your advocating here is well beyond just simple mindset and awareness, especially in a high stress, rapid, unexpected attack.
ROFLSorry but I was not kidding. Be aware of what is going on lets you set you body for a T stance which alows you to side step easily the cane should already be at the ready and after you have side stepped then struck him you can back away draw and dail 911.
I'm sorry but I didn't intend to present those steps as happening at the same time but over a period of seconds.
Plus being trapped in a narrow alley or hall calls for different actions.
True! I keep hearing this person say 3' stick, that person say a quick draw rig, and another say a cane. Almost always it seems people talk as if they're facing the attack and are prepared for it -- as if on alert. In a combat situation, you're always on alert. Walking out of the movies with your date, however, and I'll bet you're not. There's a lot of different martial arts/combatives with lots of good moves for a knife attack, but none of them matter if you're not always on alert and always aware of your surroundings. In the Army, we routinely placed unusual items around and about training areas, living quarters, rec facilities, etc. -- anywhere trainees would be during the day (some when they were alert, and some where they weren't). We'd stop them after they walked through the "set-up" and ask them to name the objects they passed. You'd be surprised how many failed the test until they were trained to observe surroundings constantly. What does this mean? Failure or success relies less in the technique you use to defend and counter-attack and more in your awareness of your surroundings. Think about it.Face it, if someone wants you dead and you don't know it, they have a tremendous advantage. Knife, gun, club, it does not matter much if they have the drop on you.
But the reciprocal contact shot from a magnum to the knife wielder's torso? That one he ain't walking away from.
50 million years ago, or 500 million years ago, the animals that survived were those that were always on alert. They were attuned to the tiniest sounds of a cracking twig on the ground, or a slight change in ambient smell, or something moving in their peripheral vision, whether a leaf blowing in a breeze or a large predator. By being alert to those, they survived - natural selection - and passed their genes onto their offspring.I keep hearing this person say 3' stick, that person say a quick draw rig, and another say a cane. Almost always it seems people talk as if they're facing the attack and are prepared for it -- as if on alert. In a combat situation, you're always on alert.